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MUMBAI: India is the key to connect billions across the world to the Internet, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said, as the social networking giant tied up with Reliance Communications to launch the Internet.org app in a country where smartphone sales growth is among the fastest globally. The app will offer users access to free basic Internet services for health, education, jobs and communication. "One day, we will connect everyone, and the power of the Internet will serve every community across India and the world.

NEW DELHI: You can now use the internet using Wi-Fi facility free of cost while travelling in Howrah-bound Rajdhani Express train from New Delhi. The facility was launched by railways today in the premier train as a pilot project. "There was a demand for it and it was part of the budget announcement," Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said after launching the Wi-Fi internet service in the train at New Delhi Railway station. He said the Wi-Fi service was launched as a pilot project and the passengers will be availing the service free of cost.

KORAMANGALA: Started with Rs 1 lakh as seed capital in 2008, Innoz Technologies Pvt Lmt now marks Rs 6 crores revenue and targets 150% increase in next financial year. Considering the growth of Innoz, which was started by four engineering students based in Kerala now set-up their head office in Koramangala are flying high and sky is the limit for them. Deepak Ravindran , Co-founder & CEO, Innoz Technologies which started when he was 20-year-old has inspiring journey for budding entrepreneurs.

NEW DELHI: India has the fastest Internet traffic growth globally and is expected to have 348 million users by 2017, a study by networking giant Cisco said. According to Cisco's Visuals Networking Index (VNI) forecast (2012-17), Internet traffic in India will reach 2.5 exabytes per month in 2017, up from 393 petabytes per month in 2012. One exabyte equals 1 million terabytes. "In India, there will be 348 million Internet users in 2017, up from 138 million in 2012," the VNI forecast said.

BANGALORE: America Online (AOL) may soon make its foray into India as a service and products provider. According to sources, the company will soon start providing its web services and products like AOL Pictures, AIM, ICQ, MapQuest and Netscape to its customers here. The India entry is part of its service launches in 35 countries. AOL's website states that several new international content portals are being readied for launch in '06. The key management team in India could include Maneesh Dhir, senior vice-president and country head of AOL Business Units in India, and company vice-president PG Ponnapa.

BANGALORE: Bharat Sanchar Nigam said on Thursday that it will offer caller line identification (CLI) based accountless internet facility to its subscribers in Bangalore shortly. "Landline customers would be able to browse the internet without having any separate account for internet access. Customers will have to pay only a nominal internet access charge of 10 paise per minute, besides the local call charges of Re 1.20 per three minutes," Principal General Manager, Bangalore Telecom B R Baliga told reporters here.

DELHI| BENGALURU: Google has put on hold plans to provide free data to end users in India by zero rating certain apps, due to recent public backlash against a similar initiative by Facebook and Airtel, two people familiar with the development said. The Internet giant, which was in early discussions with telecom operators and applications developers to launch a zero rating platform, has now decided to take a wait and watch approach, they said. "Google has shelved the idea of any kind of zero-rating tieup because they are very scared of the backlash which came up against (Facebook's)

Sandeep Dutta It is hard to believe that a mere decade ago, the majority of companies worldwide provided little or no Internet access to their employees. Indeed, the Internet itself was just emerging as a popular medium and few could have predicted that it would become so ubiquitous so quickly, both in personal and business affairs. Historically, enterprises have managed Internet access by means of proxy server software installed on general-purpose servers, and a large percentage of companies still do. Unfortunately, legacy proxy servers are not scalable, fast or reliable enough to cost effectively serve the massive increase in users, and the systems lack the functionality required to ensure that employees use the Internet in the most efficient way possible.

VSNL will be hiking its tariff for internet dial-ups by up to 12% from April 1 while the pulse rate for local calls fall from three minutes per call to two minutes, making internet access even more expensive. The move will reduce the cost of long distance telephony, while a superior mode of communication and lifestyle gets dearer. Compare that to the high level of internet penetration in the US, where local calls are free and telecom companies depend on long distance calls for revenues.

MUMBAI: Chennai -Based internet services company Sify has revamped its business strategy after the entry of new investors in the company. The company recently received fresh funding of $37m from silicon valley-based investor Raju Vegesna. Mr Vegesna also bought out Satyam Computers' 31% and picked up another 9% through a fresh issue of equity in Sify. Sify's origins date back to the dotcom boom and began as a portal business. Subsequently, the company got into internet access where it build internet cafes by the name of I-way.